Future Lives Quotes

#1. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Francis Harold Cook

#2. Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here.

Omar Khayyam

#4. Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

Frederick Lenz

#5. By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!

Paula White

#6. If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

Frederick Lenz

#7. For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Byron Katie

#8. The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day. Thank you. That is all.

Dalai Lama

#9. People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

Paulo Coelho

#10. At night when I lie awake I can hear it, quiet but unrelenting, undeniable: a whisper in my head, Slip away. When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I dreamed I wanted, the things I had and threw away.

Paula Hawkins

#11. No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future lives right at this moment, and every moment of decision-making.

Lianne Downey

#12. If one discloses everything in speech he 'designs' in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#14. There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

Beryl Markham

#16. We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Doug Dillon

#17. Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

Ayn Rand

#18. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

John Speed

#19. It is tha action that we're taking NOW
That will determine our FUTURE lives.

Thomas Arnalsteen

#20. Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Luther Burbank

#22. We are all of our past, present and future lives, as well as the younger and older versions of ourselves. We are also every version, of everyone, in every time, everywhere. Space and time are collective illusions, and we exist in these other dimensions and times for eternity.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#23. Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

James Dobson

#24. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour

#25. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

#26. Was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.

Dean Koontz

#27. As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Terrence Howard

#28. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.

R.J. Gonzales

#29. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

Corrie Ten Boom

#30. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

Maude Barlow

#31. Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

Margaret Mead

#32. All of us, try to eliminate risk from our lives. The sad thing about risk is that when you eliminate risk you also eliminate the future.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#33. Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future

Hlovate

#34. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition

Nick Hornby

#35. These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

Winifred Holtby

#36. Sadly like cancer, we may never fully find a way to STOP bullying. But we can continue to work diligently to help empower children to rise above its despair and lead them to live healthy productive lives in their future.
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#37. But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.

Neal Stephenson

#38. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Dan Millman

#39. The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either.

Harry Mulisch

#40. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

Paul Raskin

#41. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

J. Michael Straczynski

#42. To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.

Kathleen Hanna

#43. A speaking, a crisis, people's lives in tatters, the future of the colony in doubt. And I cry in relief because an overblown computer program is speaking to me again,

Orson Scott Card

#44. If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

Jim Stovall

#45. There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Eleanor Brown

#46. The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

John Kurtz

#47. We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

#48. Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

Ronald Reagan

#49. You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall

#50. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Malala Yousafzai

#51. Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over ... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.

Cyril Connolly

#52. Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Jack Kornfield

#53. I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.

Astro Teller

#54. For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Viktor Schauberger

#55. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#56. An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves.

Gordon Klingenschmitt

#57. Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

Caroline Flint

#58. Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you
as you are right now and as you ever will be
are fully enough for this moment ...

Elizabeth George

#59. Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

Ted Nugent

#60. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

#61. The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Fred Durst

#62. Now they're twenty-four and their real lives lie before them. Jobs of their own, a house of their own, children of their own. There are the two of them, and the future they are moving into is theirs, too.
Or is it?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#63. We turned and sailed away, joining the outgoing bergs, while "gloria in excels is" still seemed to be sounding over all the white landscape, and our burning hearts were ready for any fate, feeling that whatever the future might have in store, the treasures we had gain would enrich our lives forever.

John Muir

#64. Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

Richard Holloway

#65. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Carew Papritz

#66. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

Ellen MacArthur

#67. I've heard you talk about this town like it's the only thing you love aside from fixing cars. People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you is going to take it away from you.

Adi Alsaid

#68. The past sucks and the future can be outright paralyzing, but we must push through those times and find what little happy moments there are in our short, short lives - Emilio

Emilio

#69. I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

Wendy Mass

#70. If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#71. My purpose ... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Juliette Gordon Low

#72. I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

Leonard Mlodinow

#73. There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#74. To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

Michael Doucet

#75. Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Russell Targ

#76. When we discover this and give our lives to it, we are leaders. This is the Path of Leadership. Whatever our age or phase of life, we must enter and stay on the Path of Leadership. The future of the world depends upon it-upon you.

Oliver DeMille

#77. The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

#78. People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

Anthony Liccione

#79. A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.

Jennifer Holliday

#80. is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?10 Kennedy

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#81. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

Corrie Ten Boom

#82. We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#83. You can never lose ... when you help better the lives of children. Showing them love and kindness each day ... will help take them a long way on the road of life. The future of humanity depends on it!

Timothy Pina

#84. For a while children live under their mother's skin. Then one day in the future, the mother lives under the child's.

Suzanne Supplee

#85. An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Montesquieu

#86. One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

John W. Gardner

#87. By worrying about the future, We will convolute our present lives.

Mohith Agadi

#88. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future.

Michael Chabon

#90. Peter gazed at the destruction. It was the cities that always turned his thoughts to what the world had once been. The buildings and houses, the cars and streets: all had once teemed with people who had gone about their lives knowing nothing of the future, that one day history would stop.

Justin Cronin

#91. I want to know about the future because I'm a man," the camel driver had said to the seer. "And men always live their lives based on the future." The

Paulo Coelho

#92. We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

Christopher Fowler

#93. And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.

Peter Marshall

#94. People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow's workforce won't.

Bill Jensen

#95. I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

#96. Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.

John Flavel

#97. Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Rajneesh

#98. Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore.

Dick Houston

#99. This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Corrie Ten Boom

#100. One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

John Ruskin